Partner

Corporate & Commercial

Expertise

Lisa is a Corporate and Commercial/IP/IT/Media Solicitor. She is responsive, commercial, and enjoys working as a trusted advisor for start ups, SMEs, helping senior management of established businesses as well as supporting in-house legal as a trusted external adviser.

Lisa is glad to offer a regular General Counsel package to Start-ups, high-growth companies and SMEs (of several days a month).

Lisa has acted for a range of clients across a variety of sectors including e-commerce, media/tech, retail, hotels, medical and technology. She is known for her media work in film/TV, publishing, music, and theatre/opera/live events.

She assists growing businesses from their start-up and growth stage phases right through to exit. She consistently provides high quality work to her broad range of clients, and enjoys getting to the heart of a deal’s profitability and revenue streams.

Lisa’s experience includes advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, asset purchases, joint ventures, shareholder matters, investment and fundraising, commercial IP/IT and media contracts. Lisa is noted for her work with entrepreneurs looking to scale. She assists growing businesses from start-up and growth stage phases right through to exit. From equity investment rounds including seed, venture capital, to Series A and beyond plus related commercial IP/IT matters.

Her commercial work is extensive: IP assignments, JV deals, outsourcing, asset purchase agreements, technology development, SaaS deals, IP licensing, website terms, sale of goods, customer terms and conditions.

Her film/television work: options, co-productions, commissions, talent deals, distribution, pre-sales and associated finance agreements. Carriage. Regulatory. Fair dealing/defamation review.

Other media work: publishing, merchandising and music deals. Marketing and sponsorship.

Lisa Advises

  • Founders and entrepreneurs
  • Production Companies
  • Distributors
  • Talent
  • Start-ups, scale ups and high-growth companies
  • SMEs
  • In-house legal teams
  • Larger international enterprises

Experience Highlights

  • Sale of a well-known kids brand and TV series to an international buyer.
  • Sale of a camera and software business to a US buyer.
  • Complex Series A funding of a metaverse company and settlement of an associated dispute with an overseas investor.
  • Restructuring and Series A investment into a sports business and associated hive out of a related publishing business.
  • Full TV series advice on three leading children’s animation series on FIVE and ITV, Netflix Christmas shows, Sky factual entertainment series.
  • General Counsel for an international publishing business buying heritage estates including leading nuanced asset purchases, and detailed chain of title analysis of historic IP.

Career History

Previous Law Firms

  • Simkins LLP (2016 – 2022)
  • Gateley LLP (2010 – 2016)

Memberships

  • PRS
  • Society of Authors
  • PACT

Education

  • College of Law (1998 – 2000)
  • Cambridge University, Gonville and Caius College (1989 – 1993)

Other

Lisa has spoken at CMC, PACT, IBC, for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

 

Expertise

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Lisa is a Corporate and Commercial/IP/IT/Media Solicitor. She is responsive, commercial, and enjoys working as a trusted advisor for start ups, SMEs, helping senior management of established businesses as well as supporting in-house legal as a trusted external adviser.

Lisa is glad to offer a regular General Counsel package to Start-ups, high-growth companies and SMEs (of several days a month).

Lisa has acted for a range of clients across a variety of sectors including e-commerce, media/tech, retail, hotels, medical and technology. She is known for her media work in film/TV, publishing, music, and theatre/opera/live events.

She assists growing businesses from their start-up and growth stage phases right through to exit. She consistently provides high quality work to her broad range of clients, and enjoys getting to the heart of a deal’s profitability and revenue streams.

Lisa’s experience includes advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, asset purchases, joint ventures, shareholder matters, investment and fundraising, commercial IP/IT and media contracts. Lisa is noted for her work with entrepreneurs looking to scale. She assists growing businesses from start-up and growth stage phases right through to exit. From equity investment rounds including seed, venture capital, to Series A and beyond plus related commercial IP/IT matters.

Her commercial work is extensive: IP assignments, JV deals, outsourcing, asset purchase agreements, technology development, SaaS deals, IP licensing, website terms, sale of goods, customer terms and conditions.

Her film/television work: options, co-productions, commissions, talent deals, distribution, pre-sales and associated finance agreements. Carriage. Regulatory. Fair dealing/defamation review.

Other media work: publishing, merchandising and music deals. Marketing and sponsorship.

Lisa Advises

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  • Founders and entrepreneurs
  • Production Companies
  • Distributors
  • Talent
  • Start-ups, scale ups and high-growth companies
  • SMEs
  • In-house legal teams
  • Larger international enterprises

Experience Highlights

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  • Sale of a well-known kids brand and TV series to an international buyer.
  • Sale of a camera and software business to a US buyer.
  • Complex Series A funding of a metaverse company and settlement of an associated dispute with an overseas investor.
  • Restructuring and Series A investment into a sports business and associated hive out of a related publishing business.
  • Full TV series advice on three leading children’s animation series on FIVE and ITV, Netflix Christmas shows, Sky factual entertainment series.
  • General Counsel for an international publishing business buying heritage estates including leading nuanced asset purchases, and detailed chain of title analysis of historic IP.

Career History

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Previous Law Firms

  • Simkins LLP (2016 – 2022)
  • Gateley LLP (2010 – 2016)

Memberships

  • PRS
  • Society of Authors
  • PACT

Education

  • College of Law (1998 – 2000)
  • Cambridge University, Gonville and Caius College (1989 – 1993)

Other

Lisa has spoken at CMC, PACT, IBC, for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.